Marked for Andreas Prass
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
$730.0K. No player has ever cost Grodig more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match26 Aug 2026
Grodig bow out of the cup
SV Ried go through and Grodig go home, 2‑8 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Grodig can pretend not to have heard.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Grodig are taken apart by SV Ried — and the town wants answers
It finished 2-8. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Grodig
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Andreas Prass joins from Mattersburg in a deal worth $120.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Aug 2026
Oliver Strunz among the goals in a wild afternoon
10 goals in one match, Oliver Strunz on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Grodig and SV Ried.
In brief
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The terraces
Grodig spend $730.0K on the signing the town wanted
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Squad
Words at Grodig training over how hard people work
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Match
Grodig come up short against Wolfsberger AC
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match26 Aug 2026
Admira Wacker ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Mattersburg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Mattersburg
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mattersburg are no longer polite ones.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Michael Lang in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Business is business: Andreas Prass goes
Grodig paid $120.0K and Mattersburg took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match29 Aug 2026
Sturm Graz left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Knaller, and the manager let it.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Mattersburg will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 53. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Christoph Laimer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christoph Laimer commits to Mattersburg for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mattersburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Martin Dietrich has come up in conversations Mattersburg were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Valentino Fuchs falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match8 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Andreas Trimmel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mattersburg.
Market10 Aug 2026
Pineto are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Mattersburg will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.